"They will be mostly navigation and communications satellites," Popovkin said.
On Friday the general inspected the Reshetnev Applied Mechanics Association, making different-purpose satellites, based in Zheleznogorsk. About a half of its orders are military.
The Space Troops have "the fullest information" on each object now in space, General Popovkin said.
He set high store by work of the Reshetnev association. Inspecting some of its workshops and test benches, he told reporters that the works "handles a wide range of topical problems, without which Russia could not have existed as a space power". Over 45 years the association has made more than 1,200 spacecraft.
He also said that the Reshetnev association has orders arriving from the Space Troops "for a long time to come" and fills all of them "perfectly".
"At least on the day of its 45th birthday I'm not going to reprove the colleagues", he noted.
Honoring the 45th anniversary of the association, a bronze monument to Academician Mikhail Reshetnev has been unveiled in Zheleznogorsk. In 1959, following instruction from General Designer of Soviet Space Rocket Systems Sergei Korolev, Reshetnev, 35, came to this city in the taiga woods to found a factory making different-purpose earth satellites.
It has grown into the Applied Mechanics Scientific-Industrial Association named after its founder. In the summer of 1964 it made the first three satellites of the Kosmos series, orbited on August 18 of the same year. Now, the association manufactures up to 70 percent of Russia's spacecraft. Most of them have a guaranteed orbital service life of ten to twelve years. The Reshetov association is the leading Russian maker of such machines.
A meeting has been heldon the occasion of unveiling the Reshetnev monument. It was attended by numerous guests arriving from many Russian cities. The over two-meter-tall bronze figure of Reshetnev was made in Zhukovsky after the design of sculptor Yuri Zloty from Krasnoyarsk.
